UGA basketball- start the season thread kneehigh

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Tournament or bust? What are we thinking?

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definitely not thinking that. there's zero reason to set myself up for disappointment for a basketball season, so im not going to

i think my expectation would be to actually belong in bubble conversations at any point.

Really excited about the team he put together. I think we should definitely be a bubble team looking at the schedule and our talent. However, wouldn’t be surprised if we were a solid NIT or a solid 10 seed….just going to enjoy this ride and look for some serious improvement over the last 10 years

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I hate the new age college basketball

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im with you 100% and i dont care if it makes me an old loser (im 31 so im not quite there yet).

we have had a completely new team something like 5 years in a row. that's not an exaggeration. it is objectively less fun to follow.

jabri abdur rahim, justin hill, moncrieffe, and frank anselem are i think our only 4 returners. all 4 of those did NOT start with us. maybe only 2 of them will be legit contributors if we are any good.

it's a huge pain in the arse IMO. we don't have a choice, though.

if you become a good program, you can get a little more stability, but even the most consistently good team in the country that i do also follow a bit (kansas, obviously) has way, way less roster consistency than they used to.

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One of the podcasts I’ll listen to sometime presented an interesting hypothetical. Would you rather win regular season lose first round SEC tournament and play in NIT? Or win SEC tournament and make bracket? I’ll say making NIT almost ensures a bracket spot next season in most cases. Not always. But losing in first round of NCAA tournament means nothing but making a deep NIT run would be a great step in the right direction

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So in short, your question is would you rather play in the ncaa tournament or the NIT?

For our program prestige I would take winning a NIT title over a first round exit IF we are guaranteed to make the NCAA tourney the next year.

I think a NIT title would be cool, but obviously the big tourney is the one that matters most.

Would kind of be funny if we just became a program that just dominated the NIT on a yearly basis.

As someone who follows Uga basketball more than most, the 08 SECCG run was the most fun I've ever had watching this team

yah, the '08 run was unreal. That team looked like they could not be beat. Felton had us clicking. I think we would have done well the next season but we had a few key players get kicked off the team. I would think the realistic goal is the NIT. Year 3 we should start expecting the NCAA's and if we don't make it by year 4 then you start evaluating if he's the right guy. Just my opinion.